Fiction

It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and regrets, and

New to Penguin Clothbound Classics, Joyce's seminal story collection about ordinary Dublin lives

'Joyce's early short stories remain undimmed in their brilliance' Sunday Times

James Joyce's earliest major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time.

The stories within Dubliners are ro

From America's top writer of hardboiled crime, the novel that became Tarantino's hit film JACKIE BROWN

Jackie, a flight attendant with a serious side hustle, is about to get grounded...

She's just got busted smuggling large amounts of hot money on the Caribbean-Florida run, and now the Feds are pressuring her to turn informant - but Ordell Robbie, the highly dysfunc

A rollicking tale of the 1970s Detroit criminal underworld from legendary crime writer Elmore Leonard

To get ahead in armed robbery, you just need to find the perfect business partner...

When auto thief Stick steals a maroon '73 Camaro from Frank's used car lot, Frank spies an unexpected opportunity. He 'suggests' they combine forces, and soon they're embarking on a

FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR - WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HISHAM MATAR

After an assassination attempt and in waning health, Naguib Mahfouz became more cautious in his twilight years. At the same time, in nightly dreams, his imagination began to roam his beloved city, Cairo, with a rare freedom.

In this collection of vivid vignettes linked together by the author'

A biting psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express, now available in English for the first time

Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman: tall, beautiful, and not afraid to speak her mind. In Tokyo bars, she seduces customers and commits petty crime, using her connections to the local yakuza to get by. When she meets Shirakawa Fukutaro, a rich widower

A rip-roaring caper novel by bestselling crime author Elmore Leonard

Ordell and Louis have picked the wrong woman to kidnap...

They thought it would be easy money. Snatch the wife of a rich Detroit businessman and demand a nice big ransom. What they didn't reckon on was the fact that her husband has a secret mistress and doesn't want his wife back at all. Or that th